An economic mystery: Despite the hot economy, wages are barely growing, adjusting for inflation Unemployment is low, and wages have ticked u...

An economic mystery: Despite the hot economy, wages are barely growing, adjusting for inflation Unemployment is low, and wages have ticked up, but so has inflation. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has described the fact that wages are not growing faster as a "bit of a mystery." What is driving the weakness in inflation-adjusted wage growth?